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II. LAMMERTZ. PORTABLE PLANT F0R-TI IE TREATMENT OF GARBAGE, REFUSE, L Z-"FILL, DEAD ANIMALS, AND THE'LIKEI APPLICATION FILED NOV-10,1919- :I ll ll V I I I l/VI/EA/TUI? L HEM?! MMMf/PTZ BYIIMA FTTOIWYEV%W- MW 5 IIIQIWIII 1 n Q IM NnRflls PETERS. INC. LITHQ. WASHINGTON D C Reissued Mar. 8 1921.

U E STATES, PA-TENT g HENRY LAMMERTZ, or rHILAniaLPI-IIA, pmnnmmai0RTAJ3I-E PLANT r013. THE TREATMENT or GARBAGE, REFUSE, OFFAL, bean ANL MALSLAND THE LIKE.- r c s f Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissued. 313,1 8 1921 original in. 1,259,248, dated March 12, 1913, Serial No. 160,556,]fi1e d'A1iril 7, 1917,. Application fa. a

is suefiled November 10, 1919. .S eriaI N o. 337,018,

To all whom it mag concern: I

Be itknown that I, HENRY LAMMERTZ,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Portable Plants for the Treatment of Garbage, Refuse, Oflal, Dead Animals, and the like, of which the following is a specification,'reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of the same; i

The'principal object of my inventionis to provide a lant for treating garbage, refuse, ofi'al, dead animals, and the like, on a float or other water buoyed vessel adapted to travel under its own power or otherwise.

The purpose ofthis object is to furnish sucha float or vessel having a disposal plant thereon for the collection of discarded mat ter at a convenient place on a'river or other body of water, which maybe within the confines of a communityand 'carry such matter on such float or vessel toa point for treatment, which is far enough away from a settled community to insure freedom therein from obnoxious odor necessarily emitted upon the treatment of suchmatter.

Another advantage of my invention lies in the fact that the embodiment thereof'is adapted for temporary location and thus avoids the risk of becoming a public nui- "sance, as is often the case with stationary plantsbuilt for such purposes, due tofa community-being'then or afterward built up in its locality.

I make no claim for theuse' of a portable plant for the'purposes named for use on land vehicles such as cars, automobiles 'or carts as such a plant would not always have the advantage oftheready ,supply'of water in unlimited quantities which is necessary for the reduction of the discarded matter.

In the drawings- Fi re lis a sectional View of a boat showing the main portions of a disposal plant thereon;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail view of the plant;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View of a p t n, of the plant; and

Fig; his a transverse" sectional view show I ing the means for filling'the digester s.

Referring now in. detail tothe drawings,

inwhich similar'numerals refer tosimilar parts throughout, 1 is a suitable float or water buoyed vessel, which may be propelled by self contained power'or may be towed, depending upon the adaptability of the boat for self propulsion or for towing, and also depending, of course, upon "the exigencies built in the-boat 1 adisposal Plant'oQnsist-" ing of digesters,1neans for emptying the I same of their contents when they have been processed therein,'means for extracting the liquid and grease from such fprocessed'ma terial, and-means for reclaimingthefvaluable products. It isunderstood," of course,

that any means for processin u'se,'olfal, dead animals and-the like-may be used. in conjunctionwith a portablewater buoyed vessel, without departing from the garbage, ref

spirit of myinvention. 7 The apparatus shown, however will now be described.

In the embodiment shown, I have provided a series of digesters2prov'ided with man- 7 holes 3,-having suitable covers thereonas shown. 1 The bottoms of these digesters are preferably Jmadelof tapered fOifIILSO as" to permit the ready-emptying thereof -when required in "casesjwhere it is preferable" to empty such dige'stersi from theirv bottoms asin the embodiment shown; The contents of'each ofthese digesters is controlled by "a valve 5 as'shown.-. These digesters arearranged in .batte'ries as shown inFig. 3' and are contained in atank room 6'; Leading to I the bottom of each digester is a connection to a'water shown inig. 2.

ipe 7 and a steam'pipe 8 as is.

7 Below the digesters, I'have provided receiving tanks 9.

guide the contents onto the traveling belt or apron 10', which runs over rollers 11.

v The bottoms of the 're. ceiving'tanks are preferably inclined so as to' Underneath thisapron 10 is shown a per-I 

